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Ethereum researcher warns AI could crack crypto wallet keys in months

  • —Drake defined a practical break as recovering a private key in about a week using a large GPU cluster
  • —He advised moving funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction
  • —Institutions should review exposed public keys and strengthen cold storage security
  • —Oracles and L2 security councils should rotate keys or add hash-based signatures like SPHINCS
Why it matters: The ECDSA threat affects every wallet with an exposed public key, including large holders and protocol infrastructure.
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Source: The Cryptonomist
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